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Babe Rainbow (musician)
Babe Rainbow is the moniker of Canadian musician Cameron Reed. Reed first came to prominence following the release of two records as Babe Rainbow on the UK-based Warp Records, ''Shaved EP'' in 2010 and ''Endless Path EP'' in 2011. Mixing the genres of Dubstep, ambient, hip-hop, and Noise music, Babe Rainbow's early Post-dubstep material was described as "creating "overcast, suffocating sonic landscapes" that evoke a sound "like living in a haunted house". In addition to providing official remixes for artists such as Grimes, Midnight Juggernauts, and Jokers of the Scene, Reed has provided production to up-and-coming rappers and occasionally releases free EPs of demos and works-in-progress. In 2012, Reed briefly joined the backing band for Domino Records-signed R&B artist How To Dress Well before going on to release an EP of minimalist piano compositions titled ''Minnesota Winter EP'', and ''Falling Apart EP'' which Pitchfork Media ''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babe Rainbow (other)
''Babe Rainbow'' is the third album by British alternative rock band The House of Love: it was critically acclaimed by both '' Select'' and ''Spin''. Background ''Babe Rainbow'' is the only House of Love studio album to feature Simon Walker (ex- Dave Howard Singers as well as being Chris Groothuizen and Pete Evans’ bandmate in My White Bedroom). Walker had replaced Terry Bickers as lead guitarist in December 1989 and would himself leave the band in mid-1992 (to be replaced by Simon Mawby of The Woodentops). Former House of Love member Andrea Heukamp returned as a guest performer to add extra guitar and backing vocals. The album’s producer Warne Livesey co-wrote two songs with Guy Chadwick – "You Don’t Understand" and "Feel" – which were the first House of Love songs not entirely written by Chadwick. Both were released as singles, as were "The Girl With the Loneliest Eyes" (which was released as a taster for the album) and "Crush Me". The album's title comes from a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clams Casino (musician)
Michael Volpe (born May 12, 1987), known professionally as Clams Casino, is an American record producer and songwriter from Nutley, New Jersey. Volpe is currently signed to Columbia Records and Sony Music. He has produced tracks for artists such as ASAP Rocky, Lil B, Vince Staples, Joji, The Weeknd, and Mac Miller and has also remixed works by Big K.R.I.T., Washed Out, and Lana Del Rey. Career A resident of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Volpe got his start in music tinkering with keyboards while he was a student at Nutley High School. Volpe's official debut EP ''Rainforest'' was released through Tri Angle Records in 2011. His ''Instrumentals'' mixtape was released on March 7, 2011, followed by the release of ''Instrumentals 2'' on June 5, 2012 and ''Instrumentals 3'' in 2013. The mixtapes were distributed for free through his website. Volpe contributed a score for ''Locomotor'', a work choreographed by his cousin Stephen Petronio released in 2014. He released his debut stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as [adult swim] and often abbreviated as [as]) is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house production studio, Williams Street. It is part of American media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. Adult Swim runs nightly from 9 p.m. – 6 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, ET/Pacific Time Zone, PT. Debuting in 2001, Adult Swim served as the nighttime identity of Cartoon Network, and it was established as alternative programming during late night hours when Cartoon Network's primary target audience would normally be sleeping. By 2005, Adult Swim would be granted its own separate Nielsen ratings report from Cartoon Network due to its targeting a different audience. The block features stylistically varied animated and live-action shows, including original programming, broadcast syndication, syndicated series, anime, and short fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Attrakionz
Main Attrakionz is an American hip hop duo from Oakland, California, composed of rappers Mondre M.A.N. (Damondre Grice) and Squadda B (Charles Glover). Career Grice and Glover met in the seventh grade when they were both kicked out of math class, and began recording raps together. The two have continued to collaborate and have become known as significant players in the "cloud rap" movement, which features "a splinter sound that's ethereal and often hooked around cascading synth lines and amorphous beats". On March 2, 2012, Main Attrakionz released ''Cloudlife'', a collaborative EP with Jel and Zachg. On October 22, 2012, the duo released their first album, ''Bossalinis & Fooliyones'', which was noted in ''Spin'' to have "nine-song run from 'On Tour' to 'Bury Me a Millionaire' is as impressive as anything on a rap record this year". On their review of the album, ''Pitchfork'' said of the duo, "here are two guys who clearly love to rap and work hard at it, taking a style they can c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porcelain Raft
Porcelain Raft is Mauro Remiddi's main music project. The New York-based musician began his long, prolific career in Italy, the place of his birth, playing for small, local projects. After composing the original soundtrack for the 1997 Italian short-film ''La Matta dei Fiori'', and collaborating and touring the world with various bands, Remiddi launched his first solo recording project under the moniker Porcelain Raft, and in 2010 released his first solo EP ''Gone Blind'' with Acéphale Records. In 2011 he signed with Secretly Canadian and released the debut Porcelain Raft full-length record ''Strange Weekend'' which peaked at #33 on the ''Billboard'' Top Heatseekers Albums chart. ''Permanent Signal,'' Porcelain Raft's second album was released on Secretly Canadian in August 2013. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paper Bag Records
Paper Bag Records is a Canadian independent record label, artist-management company, and music publisher founded in 2002 and based in Toronto. History The label was created to focus on the Toronto-area indie rock music scene. Initial signings were Broken Social Scene and Stars (Canadian band), Stars with their breakthrough albums. ''You Forgot It in People'' and Heart (Stars album), ''Heart'', respectively. The label helped launch the careers of Controller.controller, controller. controller, Tokyo Police Club, and Austra (band), Austra, amongst many others. For two years in a row, Paper Bag Records had been given the title of 'Best Label' from Toronto's ''Now (newspaper), Now Magazine'' in each of NOW's 2008 and 2009 issues. Another highlight, in the August 2007 issue of US publication ''XLR8R'', Paper Bag Records was voted #14 "Best Indie Label".' In 2011, four releases were long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize; Austra's ''Feel It Break, PS I Love You (band), PS I Love You' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Say Party
You Say Party (formerly You Say Party! We Say Die!) is a Canadian four-piece dance-punk new-wave band from Abbotsford, British Columbia, Abbotsford, British Columbia. Their first album ''Hit the Floor!'' was released in September 2005, and the band completed their second Canadian tour, an appearance at South by Southwest and a tour of the United States, before touring the United Kingdom and Germany. Their second album ''Lose All Time'' was released in Canada on March 20, 2007, and in the United States on August 18, 2007, on Paper Bag Records, in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2007, on Fierce Panda Records and in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on August 17, 2007, on PIAS Entertainment Group, PIAS. Their third album ''XXXX (album), XXXX'' was released on September 29, 2009, in Canada, February 9, 2010, in the US and May 17, 2010, in the UK. The band's fourth album, ''You Say Party'', was released on February 12, 2016. History Formation and ''danskwad'' (2003–2004) You Say Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tri Angle (record Label)
Tri Angle was an English record label based in London and New York established by Robin Carolan in 2010. The label released albums by serpentwithfeet, The Haxan Cloak, Vessel, Forest Swords, Holy Other, and Clams Casino. History After its inception and first set of releases, Tri Angle initially gained a reputation, with '' Dazed & Confused'' magazine calling the label "one of today’s most singular musical tribes". In 2011, Tri Angle was named one of the top 50 labels in America by ''Billboard'', and in 2013, label owner Robin Carolan was profiled in ''The New Yorker''. The label's releases were featured on multiple "best of" lists by notable websites and publications such as Pitchfork, ''The Guardian'', ''FACT'', ''The New York Times'', ''Rolling Stone'', and ''Spin''. Style and impact Tri Angle's sound was heavily debated in the music press, with ''The Wire'' noting it as being "one of the hardest labels to pin down in contemporary music", [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork Media
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously reviewed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino Recording Company
Domino Recording Company or simply Domino is a British independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in Brooklyn, New York that handles releases in the United States, as well as a German division called Domino Deutschland and a French division called Domino France. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more 'unusual' music from Britain and outside of the Western world. In 2011, the company announced that it was beginning a book publishing division, The Domino Press. History Founded in 1993, by Laurence Bell and Jacqui Rice, the label's first release was the Sebadoh EP '' Rocking the Forest'', licensed from Sub Pop records for release in the UK. Many of the early releases were by American artists who in the US were signed to Drag City (Smog, Will Oldham, Royal Trux), a relationship which continues to this day. Success was not immediate, as labels such as Domino, who were releasing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokers Of The Scene
Jokers of the Scene, composed of Linus Booth (also known as DJ Booth), and Chris Macintyre (also known as Chameleonic), are a Canadian Techno/Electronica, Electronic production and DJ duo. History Booth and Macintyre formed Jokers of the Scene in Ottawa, Ontario in 2003 as loft party disc jockeys; they played their own recorded tracks and remixes, as well as hosting other local rappers. Jokers of the Scene evolved into a full-time partnership after signing a recording deal with Fool's Gold Records in 2007. They later moved to Toronto, where Spinner Magazine reported on their party organizing and remixing, noting their "early '90s techno-influenced DJing style." In 2009 the pair's track "Change Up" appeared on the BeatPort chart. In 2011, Britain's New Musical Express, NME Magazine voted their remix of Salem (Michigan band), Salem's "Asia" #19 on their "50 Best Remixes Ever" list. In 2012 the pair released an EP, ''J0T5'', which included tracks in a variety of styles. Their 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Juggernauts
Midnight Juggernauts were an Australian band from Melbourne, composed of Andrew Szekeres, Vincent Vendetta (Vincent Heimann), and Daniel Stricker. The band has been described as anything from 'prog dance meets cosmic film scores', to 'slasher-flick disco' to 'deadpan landscape'. Following the release of numerous 7" and 12" singles, and limited edition EPs, the band released their debut album, ''Dystopia''. After playing festivals and headlining tours worldwide during late 2007–2008, the band finished working on their follow up album ''The Crystal Axis'', touring around its release mid-2010 at festivals and headline shows around the globe. After a few years' break, the band released a third album ''Uncanny Valley'' in mid-2013. Members have individually collaborated with various artists including Kevin Parker, Justice, Solange Knowles and Sebastian Tellier. The group also runs the label Siberia Records, through which they release their own music and others including Kirin J. Call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
